FROM ENEMY PAPERS

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2999, 22 July 1916, Page 1

FROM ENEMY PAPERS

THROUGH GERMAN SPECTACLES PATRIOTS URGED TO PRAY FOR ETERNAL WAR. FOOD THIEVE SPROTECTED BY GERMAN OFFICIALS. M'ty 20. There hax been so agrcoablo an absoncc ol' tho "Hymn of 1.1.aL0," spirit in tlio German papers since the, Tagehlatfc and one or two other oi tho .saner journal,'-: administered so severe a enstigatinn to tho haters, that .tho .sudden resurrection, of Una obsession brings "with' it something of a shock. 31.0.1.? 10 SNIOIORS AND FKWHR. KISSES. The .speeLre niukcs its rcaiUKvirauco in the .Munich Medical Weekly, through the medium of Dr. W. Fuchs. Tie is what may perhaps be described without any intentional disrespect to the gastronomic god of Germ-yiy, as a- "whole hogger." What ho demands is nothing less than white-hofc hate without limitaitons of any sort —iv short, eternal war:— "Nobody can deny that nt the present moment peace would bo a catastrophe, and that war remains the only possibility. War, which hitherto was a means lo an end., must now be considered as an end in itself. The whole nation to a man must demand

eternal war. Wo must be educated lo bate properly, to worship and venerate hatred, to love hatred. Away with tho false modesty of the milk-and-water school of patriots, away with all mock shame of brutality and

fanaticism. Let there be more sneers, fewer kisses. _ We must not hesitateabout publishing the blasphemous announcement: Unto us have been given Faith, Hope, and Hatred. But Hatred is the greatest of all of these." THE DEVIL'S SCUM. Tn practically all the German newspapers, speculations on victories in the field are displaced by discussions on the "much more sorely needed victory at home"—-the victory over the spectre of famine. The Munich Ncueste Nachrichten says:—

"When will peace come? To this million-timos-ropoated question there is but one answer: Only when the problems of our supply of food and raw materials shall have been solved by the power of our own scientific organisation. Peace can only come after we have won a great victory at home, but such a victory remains impossible so long as the usurers in food and other products are allowed a free field, and so long as they are aided and abetted in their dirty work by officials with high-sounding titles,, who, under the shadow of their office,, smile ou thi.s devil's scum for reasons very well known to themselves." STILL NO BUTTER. With a great flourish of trumpets Greater Berlin was assured a, week ago that, by way of a preliminary food reform, everybody was at least assured of a fair allowance of butter. Like all the other schemes, this, according to the Berlin Tageblalt, has proved illusory :-—

"According to official assurances, every inhabitant of Greater Berlin, under the new regulations reducing tho allowance to .Sozs per week., gets the butter to which he or she is entitled without having to fight for it. Among the general public, however, there does not appear to exist very great confidence in these assurances. In front of the butter shops to-day the crowds were as qroiit as they have been at any Vino (1, ( . fast six weeks. As early as G o'clock the ■butter dances' were already in full swing, and threo hours later, when the butter van was freed of its burden, there were hundreds left bemoaning their fate, for despite the Government's comforting promises and despite the unseemly struggling and fighting that was going on all over the city, there was not nearly enough butter available to satisfy tho surging throngs." SIMPLIFYING THIS PROBLEM.

In view of tho failure of the authorities to grapple effectively with this problem, a couple of ingenious spirits in Berlin have tried their hands at it:

"Two men entering a tavern in the lnvalidenstras.se asked to bo supplied with two empty barrels. Opening a conversation with the proprietor, one of the guests remarked that tho butter question was not at all so bad as was generally believed and that butter could still be purchased of him to the extent of hundreds of pounds at a time. An official who had overheard the conversation ordered tho men to accompany him to their store. There wero discovered thirty-five butter barrels which had heen missing for somo weeks from an adjacent provision warehouse. The barrels on being opened were found to be apparently fifled with butter, hut examination showed that under a thin layer of butter there was nothing hut coal dust. It appeared that the men had already sold half a dozen similar barrels of "butter" at £4 10s the barrel."

THE ONLY ONE. The. official Cologne Gazette throws a small hand grenade in the .shape of a sinister threat levelled at the new food dictator: ■— "The future chief of the new central committee for the people's food supply is tho first Government official of his kind, and ho will perhaps remain tho only one. The public discontent now has an oliject at which to aim, and he will he held responsible not only for mistakes and omissions, hut also for many other things that aro the result of circumstances which he will he powerless to change. All parties, without distinction, cherish the fond hope that in Herr yon TSatoeke the right man has been found, the man who will right those wrongs that can .still be righted, and who will enable the nation to hold out by furnishing it with a relatively adequate supply of food. Tie can. at any rate, do much to prevent the people from suffering such hardships as might conceivably exert a weakening effect on their will to win."